On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 18:16:42 UTC, Joakim wrote:
He gave very specific criticism, along with a code sample, then made a prediction, followed by suggesting another competing language that might do better. None of that is the usual content-free fanboy "bashing." There is nothing wrong with occasional criticism of the competition, as long as we don't overdo it, either in frequency or by exaggerating.
No, judging a language by the appearance of its syntax *is* fanboy bashing. BTW, some interesting points about Swift made by a Rust designer http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/5785.html.
